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Two metachronous tumors in the radiotherapy fields of a patient with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
International journal of cancer - 20 Aug 2001
Limacher J M, Frebourg T, Natarajan-Ame S, Bergerat J P
Abstract excerpt
A woman with a family history of brain tumors in her daughter and sister presented with a breast cancer. She subsequently developed two metachronous primary tumors: a small-cell lung cancer and a colon carcinoma. These tumors arose within the internal mammary radiotherapy field and within the field irradiated for ovariolysis. The p53 gene was analyzed in whole blood lymphocytes using a functional assay developed...
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